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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought May 8, 2008, 11:15 am Get 15% discount on books All Thought Leader newsletter subscribers receive a 15% discount on books ordered from the Exclusive Books website. Simply go to the order form and use the Thought Leader promo code MGT1. Buy Books... On criticising judges and a mea culpa by Pierre de Vos on May 8th, 2008 I have, at times, been rather scathing of some judges on our High Courts -- including Judge President John Hlophe and Judge Motata of the Transvaal Provincial Disvision of the High Court. Yet I have criticised Helen Zille for saying that Judge Nathan... Is it only me, or does Tito need a new calculator? by Arthur Goldstuck on May 7th, 2008 Is it only me, or does everyone else get the idea that Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni is adding up the right numbers but getting the wrong answer? Every time the inflation rate rises, he sticks it to the consumer, blaming our spending habits f... Russia-Georgia on the brink? It's all Fritzl and Saunders by Michael Trapido on May 7th, 2008 While tensions between Russia and Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union, continue to heighten, the world's media is focused on an Austrian cellar and Mark Saunders the gunman who laid siege to Chelsea, England. Call me a prat (well a bigger... Mr Karzai, pass the rice please by Bilal Randeree on May 7th, 2008 Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister Faisal Al--Hajji, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser Al--Sabah, Kuwaiti Prince Nawaf Al--Sabah, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Jordanian King Abdullah, Kuwait's Amir Sabah Al--Sabah, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, ... Building economic capacity by Shareef Blankenberg on May 7th, 2008 Last night (6 May 2008), a high-level South African government delegation arrived in Doha, Qatar for bilateral talks with that country. The agreement that would be signed by President Thabo Mbeki and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, ... How I loved smoking by Bruce Cohen on May 7th, 2008 There was a time in my life some years ago when a dark fear stalked me: that I was destined to become the last person on earth who could not kick the smoking habit. Like a fat person in a bakery, I was losing control. Reminiscences about smoking s... Apologists, ideologues and their lies by Jonathan Berger on May 6th, 2008 I'm really tired of drug company apologists. Take Thompson Ayodele, for example, the executive director of the conservative "think tank" Initiative for Public Policy Analysis. In a recent op--ed piece published in the Mail & Guardian, he tr... Confused youth by Mpho Maboi on May 6th, 2008 You know at times when you go through something, you tend to think that you are the only one going through it, until you talk to someone and discover that you are not. Having gone to what have come to be known as Model C schools, I have always felt ... Rage in SA: What has gone wrong? by Mpho Maboi on May 6th, 2008 You now time and again, when I read about how kids find school unsafe, I wonder what in the hell is going on in this country. I can't believe I'm going to say this but here goes. When I was back in school, such things would never happen. The wor... Conspiracy theories and the Zuma presidency by Ndumiso Ngcobo on May 6th, 2008 President Thabo Mbeki utilised state machinery to frame an innocent Jacob Zuma to get rid of the political threat posed by his (then) deputy. This is an assertion that has been whispered privately for years, with a few brave souls uttering it out lo... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za